Quotes about Blood Donation

Be a blood and organ donor. All it costs is a little love.
-Author Unknown

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.
-Osbert Sitwell

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
-William James

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
-Albert Schweitzer

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
-Karl Reiland

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
-William Shakespeare

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
-Herman Melville

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.
-Ludwig Feuerbach,

The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
-Leo Rosten

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
-Dr. Seuss

Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
'Til in Heaven the deed appears -
Pass it on.
~Henry Burton, Pass It On

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
-Edward Everett Hale

Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.
-Author Unknown

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-Winston Churchill

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Mohammed Ali

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
-Tom Brokaw

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Find a need and fill it.
-Ruth Stafford Peale

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
-Kahlil Gibran

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
-Maya Angelou

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.
-Seth Parker

"Independence"... [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
-G.B. Shaw, Pygmalion, 1912

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
-Dalai Lama

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
-John Wooden

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.
-Quoted in Believe: A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit